How to format your references using the Annual Review of Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Immunology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Lieberman Aiden E. 2011. GE Prize essay. Zoom! Science. 334(6060):1222–23

A journal article with 2 authors

Romney DK, Miller SJ. 2015. Chemistry. Climbing Jacob’s ladder. Science. 347(6224):829

A journal article with 3 authors

Devincre B, Hoc T, Kubin L. 2008. Dislocation mean free paths and strain hardening of crystals. Science. 320(5884):1745–48

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kirkland JI, Zanno LE, Sampson SD, Clark JM, DeBlieux DD. 2005. A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. Nature. 435(7038):84–87

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Tran J. 2010. The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Dillmann P, Bellot-Gurlet L, Nenner I, eds. 2016. Nanoscience and Cultural Heritage. Paris: Atlantis Press. XVI, 311 p. 128 illus., 85 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Mun H, Park JH. 2016. Inflammation and Fibrosis in ADPKD. In Cystogenesis, ed JH Park, C Ahn, pp. 35–44. Singapore: Springer

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Annual Review of Immunology.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. Two Comets For New Year’s Eve. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 2006. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Additional Action Needed to Incorporate Lessons Learned from Other Satellite Programs. GAO-06-1129T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lintott RW. 2010. The manipulation of time perception in John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic.” Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Maryland, College Park

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Pilon M. 2012. Sculptured By Weights And a Strict Vegan Diet. New York Times, Jan. 4, p. B10

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Immunology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0732-0582
ISSN (online)	1545-3278
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy